Henry Kolker
Born: 1874-11-12 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 1947-07-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Prussia, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. Kolker came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career behind him before entering silent films. On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face (1933) as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Another well remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by George Cukor. Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually ended up trying his hand at directing. Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli (1921), starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining. Prints however exist in Europe and Russia.
Filmography
1944
- Bluebeard as Deschamps
1943
- Sarong Girl as Jefferson Baxter
1942
- Reunion in France as General Bartholomew (uncredited)
1941
- A Woman's Face as Judge
- Las Vegas Nights as William Stevens Sr.
- The Man Who Lost Himself as T.J. Mulhausen
- The Parson of Panamint as Judge Arnold Mason
- The Great Swindle as Stewart Cordell
- Sing for Your Supper as Myron T. Hayworth
1940
- Grand Ole Opry as William C. Scully
- Money and the Woman as Mr. Rollins
1939
- Hidden Power as Weston
- Union Pacific as Asa M. Barrows
- Main Street Lawyer as Donnelly, District Attorney
- The Real Glory as The General
- Here I Am a Stranger as R.J. Bennett
- Parents on Trial as James Wesley
- Let Us Live as Chief of Police
- These Glamour Girls as Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
1938
- Marie Antoinette as Court Aide (uncredited)
- Holiday as Edward Seton
- Too Hot to Handle as Pearly Todd
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Horace Smith
- Love Is a Headache as Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
- The Invisible Menace as Col. Hackett
- Safety in Numbers as Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
- The Adventures of Marco Polo as Nicolo Polo
1937
- Green Light as Dr. Lane
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry as "Doc" Godfrey
- Under Cover of Night as District Attorney Pritchard
- Once a Doctor as Bruce Nordland
- Maid of Salem as Crown Chief Justice Laughton
- Let Them Live as Judge Lederer
- They Wanted to Marry as Mr. Hunter
- The Devil Is Driving as Charles Stevens
1936
- Collegiate as Mr. MacGregor
- Romeo and Juliet as Friar Laurence
- Great Guy as Abel Canning
- Sitting on the Moon as Worthington
- Theodora Goes Wild as Jonathan Grant
- Bullets or Ballots as Mr. Hollister
- My Marriage as Maj. Vaile
- The Man Who Lived Twice as Judge Treacher
1935
- Spring Tonic as Mr. Enix
- Reckless as Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
- Diamond Jim as J.C. Randolf - Bank President
- Red Salute as Dean
- Frisco Waterfront as District Attorney
- Honeymoon Limited as Mr. Randall
- Mad Love as Prefect Rosset
- Shipmates Forever as Doctor (uncredited)
- The Last Days of Pompeii as Warder (uncredited)
- The Florentine Dagger as Auctioneer
- The Case of the Curious Bride as District Attorney Stacey
- Go Into Your Dance as Doctor
- The Black Room as Baron de Berghman
- Society Doctor as Dr. Harvey
- One New York Night as Arthur Carlisle
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Crippet
- The Mystery Man as Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas
- Charlie Chan in Paris as Paul Lamartine
- Red Hot Tires as Martin Sanford
- Times Square Lady as Mr. Fielding
- A Dog of Flanders as Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)
- I Live My Life as Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
- Here Comes the Band as Simmon's Attorney
1934
- Wonder Bar as R. H. Renaud
- Bedside as Maritza's Manager
- The Ghost Walks as Dr. Kent
- Blind Date as J.W. Hartwell Sr.
- Black Moon as The Psychiatrist
- The Girl from Missouri as Senator Titcombe
- Million Dollar Ransom as Dr. Davis (Uncredited)
- Journal of a Crime as Henri Marcher
- Imitation of Life as Dr. Preston (uncredited)
- Love Time as Emperor Francis I
- A Lost Lady as John Ormsby
- Lady by Choice as Opper
- The Band Plays On as Professor Hackett
- Let's Talk It Over as Doctor
- Let's Try Again as Mr. Blake
- Sing Sing Nights as Kurt Nordon
- Whom the Gods Destroy as Carlo - the Puppeteer
- I've Got Your Number as Lawyer Robert Kirkland
- The Hell Cat as C.W. Sloane
- She Loves Me Not as Charles M. Lawton
- Now and Forever as Mr. Clark
- Name the Woman as Judge Adams
- Success at Any Price as Hatfield
- One Exciting Adventure as Customer, Oscar
1933
- Baby Face as J.R. Carter
- Blood Money as Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
- A Bedtime Story as Agent de Police
- Golden Harvest as Henry Flint
- The Keyhole as Schuyler Brooks
- Bureau of Missing Persons as Theodore Arno
- Meet the Baron as Baron Munchausen
- Hello, Sister! as Jameson Brewster - Bank President
- Gigolettes of Paris as Police Interrogator
- I Loved a Woman as Mr. Sanborn
- The Narrow Corner as Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
- The Power and the Glory as Mr. Borden
- Notorious But Nice as Defense Attorney Clark
1932
- Faithless as Mr. Carter
- Jewel Robbery as Baron Franz Hohenfels
- Devil and the Deep as Hutton
- Rasputin and the Empress as Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
- The Crash as John Fair
- The Washington Masquerade as Stapleton
- The First Year as Peter Barstow
1931
- Quick Millions as District Attorney (uncredited)
- Indiscreet as Mr. Woodward
- The Yellow Ticket as Passport Clerk
- Don't Bet on Women as Butterfield (uncredited)
- I Like Your Nerve as Areal Pacheco
- The Unholy Garden as Col. Lautrac
- The Spy as Tchijinski
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as New Englander (uncredited)
- Good Intentions as Butler
- East Is West as Mr. Benson
- Du Barry, Woman of Passion as D'Aiguillon
- The Way of All Men as Sharp
- One Heavenly Night as Prefect of Police
- The Bad One as Prosecutor
1929
- The Valiant as Judge
- Coquette as Jasper Carter
- Pleasure Crazed as Col. Farquar
- Love, Live & Laugh as Enrico
1928
- The Beautiful Spy as Viceroy Cisneros
- Soft Living as Rodney S. Bowen
- Don't Marry as General Willoughby
- Midnight Rose as Corbin
1927
- A Kiss in a Taxi as Leon Lambert
1926
- The Palace of Pleasure as Don Sebastian, Premier
- Hell's Four Hundred as John Gilmore
1925
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Marcus Morton
- Any Woman as Egbert Phillips
1924
- The Great Well ... (Director)
- I Will Repay ... (Director)
1923
- The Purple Highway ... (Director)
- The Snow Bride ... (Director)
- The Leopardess ... (Director)
- Sant'Ilario ... (Director)
1921
- A Man of Stone as (Uncredited)
- Disraeli ... (Director)
- Bucking the Tiger ... (Director)
- The Fighter ... (Director)
1920
- The Palace of Darkened Windows ... (Director)
- Heart of Twenty ... (Director)
- The Greatest Love ... (Director)
1919
- A Man's Country ... (Director)
- The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns as Kaiser Wilhelm II
- The Brat as A Dandy
- The Woman Michael Married ... (Director)
- Blackie's Redemption as Fred the Count
- Her Purchase Price as Duke of Wryden
1918
- Social Hypocrites as Dr. Frank Simpson
- The Shell Game as Lawrence Gray
- The House of Mirth as Lawrence Selden
1916
- Gloria's Romance as Dr. Stephen Royce
1915
- The Man with the Iron Heart ... (Story)
- How Molly Malone Made Good as Himself
- The Warning as Robert Denman